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Jeffrey Joseph Fredberg, Ph.D.

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Tufts University, Medford, MassachusettsBSME1968
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MassachusettsPhD1973

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Our laboratory seeks to discover physical laws governing the abilities of the cytoskeleton to deform, contract, and remodel. These basic mechanical processes underlie a range of higher level phenomena in health and disease including many aspects of cancer, cardiovascular disease, malaria, and morphogenesis, but our major research emphasis is the role of these processes in airway narrowing in asthma. Trainees with backgrounds in engineering sciences, cell biology, or physics of soft condensed matter learn how to work side-by-side to pose new questions, invent new nanotechnologies, apply these technologies in novel experimental investigations, and analyze resulting data in terms of evolving mechanistic understanding of the physical properties of the living cell.
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  1. R01HL148152 (FREDBERG, JEFFREY J) Aug 15, 2019 - Apr 30, 2023
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    Physics of bronchial epithelial unjamming
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. U01CA202123 (FREDBERG, JEFFREY J) Sep 23, 2015 - Aug 31, 2020
    NIH
    Epithelial layer jamming in breast cancer cell migration
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. P01HL120839 (FREDBERG, JEFFREY J) Aug 1, 2014 - Dec 31, 2019
    NIH
    Physics of collective cellular migration in lung health and disease
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. P50HL107171 (SOLWAY, JULIAN) May 1, 2011 - Apr 30, 2014
    NIH
    Therapeutic Potentiation of Bronchial Dilatation
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. R01HL107561 (FREDBERG, JEFFREY J) Apr 6, 2011 - Mar 31, 2018
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    Mechanics of Monolayer Migration
    Role: Principal Investigator

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